Is it difficult to study programming in a university?

Question

Mathematics

Good afternoon! I would like to ask, perhaps, an unusual question. Is it difficult to study programming in a university? The fact is that I am currently learning the basics of html, css and javascript on my own. I was interested in this direction and I thought about entering a university for a specialty related to information technology. Tell me, is this possible for a person who does not have mathematical thinking at all? Or without a good base of mathematics in any way?

Answer 1

Any thinking can be developed with practice
A bad university is worse than none
A good university is hard to find
To get into a good university you will need resources to move
Layout - has nothing to do with programming Programming
itself is just operating with blocks of code and variables
Programming is much easier than mathematics, even at the school level

Answer 2

At the university it is easy to study for theorists and difficult for practitioners. Because when you teach any language, you need to immediately apply knowledge in practice in real projects. And there they will explain the theory, practice in the laboratories, write something and that's it, on the way out. Everything is quite far from business and real tasks.

Answer 3

A programmer does not need a university.
Helpful, yes.
But not the end as needed.
It is quite possible to get by with a specialized secondary educational institution (technical school)
But there is no mathematics in technical schools (minimum)

Answer 4

We had two semesters of Website development, we studied layout, but the knowledge that I got from the Internet was enough to attend only two classes and get an automatic machine in two semesters at once.
It is more difficult with programming, from the first course we studied Pascal, in the second we were given Delphi + Subd.
In terms of learning a particular language, it is possible to get a junior level, but in terms of studying algorithms, the knowledge remained zero, since there was a teacher at the school with the Moscow State University, who was able to hammer this knowledge with a bit of C #.
I find the Harvard CS50 course very inspiring, available on the Internet. Perhaps after reading it, you will have many questions dispelled.

Answer 5

I was recently thinking about "How would I develop my career this year if I had a chance to start over."
Probably I would choose the following:
1. I would enter the physics and mathematics at a good university.
2. At the same time, I would learn one of the 3 fashionable JS frameworks, file a dozen pet projects for a portfolio and make websites on freelance - low entry threshold and have money for study + additional education.
3. At the university, I would have pressed as much as possible on mathematics and everything connected with it + actively studied English (nowhere without it)
4. In the last courses, I switched from development to studying more complex topics (for example, the implementation and optimization of complex algorithms in C ++)
5. I would go for a junior to some serious office that solves complex engineering problems (for example, at my current location it is ACM Bridge). Profit - I'm a cool engineer.
But now I'm 30, I already have a family, a lot of workload at work, etc. In general, it is difficult to make a 360-degree turn and enter a profession where I would not burn out so soon.
In general, my advice is to study! No matter how knowledge given at the university seems useless in comparison with the "brilliant" prospects that promise private courses ala "Android development in 3 months"
Ps Now slowly but surely I am moving towards FPGA development. Now there are few vacancies and funny money, but I have a feeling that there is a future in this, because general purpose calculators are a little bit more and will reach their limit